GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 381
HOUSE BILL 667

AN ACT TO ALLOW CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES TO USE WHEEL LOCKS ON ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 291 of the Session Laws of 1993 reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  The council of a city may provide, by ordinance, for the use of wheel locks on illegally parked vehicles for which there are three or more outstanding, unpaid, and overdue parking tickets for a period of ninety days.  The ordinance shall provide for notice or warning to be affixed to the vehicle, immobilization, towing, impoundment, appeal hearing, an immobilization fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00), and charges for towing and storage.  The city shall not be responsible for any damage to an immobilized illegally parked vehicle resulting from unauthorized attempts to free or move that vehicle."
Sec. 2.  Section 2 of Chapter 291 of the Session Laws of 1993 reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Cities of Durham, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro only."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives